Tyron Woodley: TRT Allows Fighters to Train Like Madmen

“If your body says it’s time to stop [fighting], it’s time to stop.
You shouldn’t be able to hit a reset button and go back and act
like you’re 25 when you’re 39. I think people that do it,
supposedly if you do it in moderation, if you have a doctor monitor
it, if you look at your levels and they’re low and he brings you to
4 to 1 or whatever the ratio is that’s deemed acceptable -- but
nobody’s doing that. Everybody’s jacking [the ratio] up to 16 to 1
and training like a madman during training camp, every session,
every training, sparring, running, and they’re just going nuts, and
then they bring themselves down slowly, but they’ve already had six
to eight weeks to train like that. You think they’re going to be in
better shape? You think they’re going to be stronger? They’ve had
better rounds. They’ve had longer rounds and been able to endure
more. If you think about as far as the competitive advantage, it’s
definitely there.

“If we’re going to complain about it, they need to regulate it
differently. You can’t exempt some people. You can’t give it out.
You can’t have certain states do it. Like when I fought Nate
Marquardt or when he was quote-unquote using TRT, he was a
different fighter. I believe when he was fighting Tarec
[Saffiedine], when he was fighting Jake
Ellenberger, he wasn’t on it and you can tell the difference. I
think that’s a gray area. For myself personally, I don’t really
place judgment on others. I just think that I don’t need it.”